MACON, Ga. — Friday would have been Otis Redding’s 81st birthday. In his honor, his family is throwing him a birthday bash to remember. But before there was the titan of music and soul, he was just a ...

ALBANY, GA (WALB) - Terrell County born Otis Redding, the legendary singer who penned the song "Sitting on the Dock of the Bay", died 48-years ago today. Plans for a memorial in his hometown faded a ...

Fifty years ago today, a small plane carrying the great soul singer Otis Redding crashed in a lake near Madison, Wisconsin, the town where I was born, killing him and all but one of his band members.

Otis Redding would have been 80 years old Thursday. Betty Freeman, who’s lived in Macon’s Greenwood Bottom neighborhood all her life, told me her mother worked with Redding when he was a youngster at ...

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-- To commemorate the 40th anniversary of Otis' death and to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Stax Records, Reelin' In The Years Productions and Stax Records (a division of Concord Music Group) are ...

In 1967, I was a very young reporter for a newspaper called The Plain Dealer in Cleveland, Ohio… and crazy in love with the music of Otis Redding. When I read that he was coming to a Black nightclub ...

"Otis Redding was the Crown Prince of Soul, and now the Crown Prince is dead." Thus ended a story that ran in Rolling Stone in January 1968, five weeks after Redding's untimely death at age 26. The ...

With the release of the fourth posthumous Otis Redding album, perhaps it’s time to examine the Pedding legend and reassess his position in the pop pantheon. Unquestionably, the man had superb talents ...

GREENVILLE, S.C. — Fifty years ago Sunday, a small plane carrying the great soul singer Otis Redding crashed in a lake near Madison, Wis., the town where I was born, killing him and all but one of his ...